Can Women Peel Off Mask Of Desperation--One Generation At A Time?
Replacing Latchkey Legacy With Mantle Of Loving-Tended Home
San Antonio, TX (PRWEB) November 8, 2007 -- In their first co-authored book, two married moms--a former feminist and a pastor's wife--shake up a sleepy society with a passionate case for women to dust off the biblical image of homemaker and reclaim the future for their children and families.
"Passionate Housewives, Desperate for God" (Vision Forum, Inc), to release October 30, dispels the glamorous myth of the popular "Desperate Housewives" television series and advances instead the biblical role of home-keeper from menial to that of a blessed mandate.
Authors Stacy McDonald and Jennie Chancey unflinchingly plead to women--squeamish about ditching their dreams of walking the red carpet in order to vacuum it--to forgo outside careers in order to tie on the apron of guardian at the home.
They encourage mothers and grandmothers, as well as older women in the church, to nobly pickup and pass on the mantle of homemaking--a sacred calling--to younger women within their sphere, as American's foremothers did in colonial days. They write that the "latchkey legacy" can be reversed when women lovingly serve their families on the home front.
Passionate Housewives, Desperate for God gives a pointed reminder of the long-neglected view that the home--tended by an actively engaged mom--is primary training ground for children. If children are arrows against ungodliness--as the Bible says--then women at home are, daily, training warriors against evil. Their roles as home-keeper is that of world-changer. In this way, the role of home-keeper burgeons into that of world changer.
According to the authors, no June Cleaver, Stepford, or "Desperate" Housewife can effectively stand gaginst the rampant violence and bullying, prejudice, pornography, drugs, crime, poverty and strife attacking their domains--for these wifely images are mere caricatures. Godly homemakers are not perfectionist women held together with plastic surgery and synthetic values. To overcome challenges in the real world, a faithful wife must be woman of prayer who views her family as a priority and daily gives herself to their care, the authors explain. The authors state that to formidably take a stand in the real world for family, home keepers must wear the gauntlets of faithful wives and women of prayer. Likewise, they must set priority in devoting themselves daily to the best interests and care of the family.
"Why is it okay for a young woman to desire any pursuit except that of the biblical homemaker?" Chancey, a former feminist-turned-homemaker, asks in the book.
"True women are passionate about true womanhood, marriage, and motherhood," she writes.
The book lays out the scriptural model found in Proverbs 31 and Titus 2 as the modern woman's perfect antidote for curing desperation on the domestic scene.
Precepts in the book matter-of-the-factly peel the face paint off the Hollywood "desperation" myth with the truth that both men and women are created with desperate hearts that can be soothed and satisfied only by God's prescription for the family.
"Ever since the day the serpent tricked Eve into 'doing [things her way' rather than following the plans and commands of God, Satan has been repackaging the same old deception for the rest of us ladies--a 'me-first' ideology that has infected our culture," McDonald explains. "A me-first philosophy cannot fulfill us or give us rest that is only found in obedience to Christ."
Provocative touch points in the book answer:
- What does the Bible teach about servanthood, servitude, and slavery--and what's the difference?
- What about single moms?
- What about modern-day perfectionism?
- What is being a homemaker not a waste of God-given talents?
McDonald is the author of Raising Maidens of Virtue: A Study of Feminine Loveliness for Mothers and Daughters. She and her husband, Pastor James McDonald, have 10 children and a grandchild on the way. The couple operates Family Reformation Ministries (www.familyreformation.org).
Chancey is founder of Ladies Against Feminism (www.ladiesagainstfeminism.com). She and her husband Matthew parent a brood of eight that Chancey homeschools.
Media interested in interviews with Stacy McDonald and Jennie Chancey, co-authors of Passionate Housewives, Desperate for God, EPKS, and review copies of the book should contact Gregg Wooding, I AM PR Services, (972) 567-7660 or gwooding@texasprototypes.com.
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